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Or their internal fights / incentives to release new things instead of maintaining them. The chat mess with Google Talk, Hangouts, Meet, Duo, etc. was quite sa

by nextos 2y ago

Or their internal fights / incentives to release new things instead of maintaining them. The chat mess with Google Talk, Hangouts, Meet, Duo, etc. was quite sad to watch because Talk was a great product.

thriftwy 2y ago
They've basically lost the market to Zoom due to their failure to have a single stable offering when COVID hit. I hope they're happy with the zoo they have.
- rob74 2y ago
  Still wondering how Zoom managed to pull that off - granted, they have a single offering, but describing it as "stable" is a stretch. And the UI is such a mess, don't get me started...
  - tonypace 2y ago
    The audio was acceptable over a bad line. For the competition, it too often wasn't.
tracker1 2y ago
When hangouts was a singular app for all chat/sms (and google voice even), etc was peak power user to me... loved it. Downhill since. The sale of Domains was also massive imo. No reason for half of this and their internal incentivization needs dramatic revision.
- wetpaws 2y ago
  Hangouts was a shadow of the Google Talk
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ilrwbwrkhv 2y ago
Dont forget Allo. Goes to show how much role luck plays in these companies' success and it is so strange that others still copy what Google, Amazon and these companies are doing thinking that they have some sort of management hack or routine which makes them successful but in fact they become successful despite of their bad practices not because of it.